CaptainHowdy

I've heard about human cases... I was missing (even if I am just by self-proclamation), I haven't read what they wrote but I echo Mien, Male, SuperSoul, and JimmyCruscotto.

It's okay, tastes differ, I don't get mad if someone doesn't share mine. I wanted to answer your question as thoroughly as possible. Regarding the issue of "reading about music," I had a subscription to "Il Mucchio Selvaggio" until a couple of years ago and I constantly read the more mainstream "Rockstar," but only because I liked the fact that it had a lot of beautiful full-page photographs (the most beautiful ones of Tori I found among those glossy pages). Let's say I read "Rumore" (only to find reasons to get upset, it's unpresentable from my point of view), "Psycho," "Rolling Stone," and "Rockerilla" often came into my hands. Now, with the advent of the internet at home, I find the latest news online directly (DeBaser is one of the sites that helps me the most), and this is coupled with the fact that if "Il Mucchio" hadn't been so editorially unstable, I might have kept my subscription because it was still a good magazine (too integralist on several issues but quite authoritative on others). The others were rather dispensable, and I've noticed that since the Age of Bloggers has also seized the right to critique, they have become even more entrenched in their individual convictions, losing much of their informative function. Therefore, right now, I'd prefer the internet over print media (this applies only to music; personally, I prefer the printed version of the three daily newspapers I read, "Corsera," "Gazzetta," and "Giornale di Vicenza").
In these years, occasionally but quite often, I took a look at "Kerrang," "NME," and "Q" in the original versions that I find at my barber's... and I must say that the Anglo-Saxons are light-years ahead of us in terms of open-mindedness, even if they are often questionable too (but it's always a matter of taste). I prefer Sylvian's career with Japan (which I unfortunately discovered late, only a few years ago) over his solo work (even if "Secrets Of The Beehive" I like a lot... it's perhaps the only thing I share with Ondarock!). I also like the first one he did with Fripp (whose title for some reason is escaping me now; I have it on a pirated cassette, but unfortunately, I like it).

"It had been since 1985 that Rundgren hadn't released an album: couldn't he wait another year? Couldn't he hold off until the eighties were over, for the music and for everyone?" Apparently, he had to eat too! ;-)

Fundamental.

I'm arriving late to insult Azzo ;-) I haven't read the review yet, but Diva and Medusa accompanied me for a long time back in the day, and even now I still listen to them occasionally. I don't know this one, but I'm not sure if it would suit my taste right now, but those are just minor details. I'm interested in the list of the best female singers, though, and I have to ask for a clarification: are you evaluating only the interpretative side? The authorial side? A mix? Because if I have to mention just one based on technical abilities, but then I don't like the songs proposed (it's a matter of genre, not anything else...), the first name that comes to mind is Aretha. What I mean is, are you evaluating just the Voice or the whole Package (charm, charisma, compositional skills, etc.)?

I notice that Isis hasn't loved me as she used to lately :-( @Male: it wasn't exactly a disco but something more Rock!, anyway I'll try to make it up with the next review!

Don't worry, it's a Dark Discoclub near Vicenza, you couldn't have known it, no ignorance, better the Feste dell'Unita' (or not?) :-)

Thanks again to everyone for the comments and in order: @Mien: if truzza means what I think it does, I believe it’s a constant not only in your parts ;-) @Male: the DeBaseriani love me because I pay them (even the Editors... indeed they did me a serious disservice)... I can’t wait to see you dance... @Jackas: so I’m sick because I normally listen to it even in my living room... (but dancing though :-D) @Ghemi: like Flin, I’m silly even without drugs.. is that okay? ;-) @Alessio: too bad, I could already see you on top of a Cube... @Flin: Dear, Vinyl practically watched me being born! Thanks for the compliment.. too kind! @S4: working on New Year's, damn it...

"We complain about Ligabue, but it seemed to me that they played the same song all evening."